Biography: Ignacio Rodríguez investigates magnetic resonance imaging. He completed his doctoral thesis directed by Dr. Jesús Ruiz-Cabello (1999 - 2003). The subject of his doctoral thesis was Magnetic Resonance with lung gases, although he also worked on functional and diffusion MRI in brain hypoxia, MRI metabolite spectroscopy, etc. Subsequently, he spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow at the “Laboratory of Cardiac Energetics. National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. National Institutes of Health ”in the United States, with Dr. Han Wen (2003 - 2005). He measured the volume change of the canine myocardium (left ventricle) during the cardiac cycle, concluding that there is a difference of approximately 1%. He returned to Spain as Juan de la Cierva fellow (2005 - 2008) and is currently employed at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the Complutense University of Madrid as a Contracted Doctor Professor.
His main research interest in these years has been lung imaging using both hyperpolarized gases and conventional imaging. In this sense, he has participated in three European projects dedicated to lung imaging (PHIL, PHELINET and PINET) as well as several National Projects dedicated to this same topic, one of them as Principal Investigator (SAF2011-25445). Complementing this interest in lung imaging, he has been Principal Investigator of two contracts with the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, consisting of the development and improvement of a multimodal ventilator compatible with hyperpolarized gas NMR. At the time of the contract, there were no commercial devices with these characteristics. In addition to imaging, he has participated in NMR-based metabonomic projects, acting as Principal Investigator in REANIMA-CM project (active).
From an academic point of view, he has participated in the creation of the Master's Degree in Biomedical Physics and the Master's Degree in Biomaterials, which are currently official master's degrees offered by the Complutense University of Madrid, and he is part of the Academic Commission for these master's degrees. He has been director or co-director of five doctoral theses (+ 1 in development), four master's thesis and seven final degree projects, as well as co-author of 36 scientific articles, two book chapters and a patent.
